Where NASA Tests Spacecraft Landing, the Old Fashioned Way
Looking down the barrel of the gun at NASA's ballistic range (Credits: Boffin Media). BBC correspondent Richard Hoolingham had the opportunity to... Read more →
SpaceX Transitions to Third Commercial Crew Phase
Source: NASA. Superdraco engine firing at SpaceX (Credits: SpaceX). Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has completed its first three... Read more →
Flight of a Grasshopper
On November 3, SpaceX founder Elon Musk shared this video of the company's Grasshopper rocket on its first flight using closed loop thrust vector and... Read more →
Communication Satellites, Delayed by Breeze-M Failure, Now Deployed
Blast off of Proton-M/Breeze-M on November 2 from Baikonour Cosmodrome (Credits: Khrunichev). On Friday November 2, a Proton rocket with... Read more →
New York to Tokyo By Way of Outer Space
XCOR's Lynx suborbital spacecraft (Credits: XCor). Imagine the flight New York to Tokyo and you probably think of being cramped in an airplane... Read more →
Copenhagen Suborbitals and Exploring “Horrible Deaths”
Kristian von Bengtson (left) and Peter Madsen, founders of the Copenhagen Suborbitals (Credits: Bo Tornvig/Copenhagen Suborbitals). There is no... Read more →